Web Essentials

Interacts with Visual Studio's Browser Link feature

Web Essentials - Chrome Extension for Visual Studio

'Web Essentials' is a Chrome extension designed to work with Visual Studio's Browser Link feature. This feature ensures smooth and seamless interaction, thereby enhancing user experience and development efficiency in the browser.

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By: Mads Kristensen

Users: 2,000+

Rating: 2.23

(13)

Version: 1.1 (Last updated: 2017-06-14)

Creation date: 2017-06-14

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

<all_urls>

Size: 15.02K

Ranking

# 20,588 ▲ 1,343

Other rankings

#7056 in Developer Tools ▼ 7

Other platforms

essentials (v1.1.2)

3.40

(273) 51,124+

Web Essentials (v1.3resigned1)

5.00

(1) 50

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Pros

Great tool from Mads
Useful after discontinuation of toolbar from 2015 version

Cons

Causes error on page load
Doesn't work
Doesn't support VS2019
Only works half the time
Problems with inspect mode

Most mentioned

Doesn't work
Issues with VS 2017
Error on page load

User reviews

When this extension enabled, it causes the following error on page load: Unchecked runtime.lastError: The message port closed before a response was received. Related Github issue: https://github.com/madskristensen/WebEssentialsChrome/issues/4